Football Development Institute effectively connects European Clubs with Specialists in a variety of roles, helping to organise internships and traineeships.
Are you looking for an Intern or Trainee for a longer period to increase capacity? Or do you intend to find interesting personalities among the rotating Interns? Perhaps you simply want to enable interested people to learn for a week or two at your Club?
In any such case, we can recommend Candidates from our pool or recruit persons well suited to the criteria indicated.
We cooperate on this field with Clubs from many European countries. To mention just a few, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium or Poland.
Our mission is to encourage Clubs to create internship and traineeship positions, support them in defining the characteristics of the project and then recommend high quality Candidates matching the specified profile.
FDI helps European Clubs to recruit Interns and Trainees for different departments and divisions:
management
strategy
administration
HR
SPORTS (many Specialist roles)
Academy roles
communication
Club media
marketing
internationalisation
finance
sales
legal
compliance
IT
Each Club can define many parameters, influencing the nature and structure of the internship or traineeship, as well as the profile of Candidates sought.
The form is structured in such a way that the Club can determine:
internship or traineeship characteristics
Intern or Trainee profile
type of cooperation with FDI
Intern
As defined by the FDI, this is a person who mainly observes operational activities at the Club, possibly taking over a small range of tasks. The internship usually lasts a few weeks.
Trainee
FDI considers the Trainee as a full participant in the conceptual, strategic and operational activities of the Club. The duration of the traineeship is generally 2-12 months.
FDI is successively building a database of Interns and Trainees with their profiles who are potential Candidates for recommendation to the Clubs. In addition, we also conduct a targeted recruitment based on the criteria indicated by the Clubs.
Organising internships or traineeships in Clubs can have different purposes. Each Club can implement its own internship strategy as part of the Club’s development concept.
We note the key objectives of integrating internships/traineeships:
increasing the capacity of different departments | improving the intensity of work
raising the effectiveness of project work
improving the ratio of salary expenditure to work effectiveness
long-term recruitment process
talent scouting
internal development path for potential new Employees according to the Club’s standards
education for interested persons | the Club’s mission
motivation for current Employees
employer branding
creation of Talent Academy (in cooperation with FDI)
